Therapy for anxiety, burnout and the weight of doing well.

Who this is for

Adults and teens who are used to functioning well and are finding that it is costing more than it used to, or that something important is missing. You may be at the top of your field, in the middle of a degree, newly promoted, newly redundant, or newly aware that the way you have been living is not sustainable.

You do not need to be in crisis to come.

What may bring you in

• Anxiety. Anticipatory worry, rumination, physical tension, difficulty switching off, a sense of constant low-grade emergency.
• Burnout. Depletion that rest does not resolve, cynicism about work you used to care about, dread on Sunday evenings, numbness.
• Perfectionism and over-responsibility. Standards that have stopped being useful, difficulty delegating, guilt at rest, carrying what belongs to other people.
• Depression. Flatness, loss of interest, self-criticism, withdrawal, and the exhaustion of performing normality for everyone else.
• Trauma. Earlier experience that still intrudes on the present: hypervigilance, avoidance, reactivity that feels out of proportion to now.
• Career and academic pressure. High-stakes decisions, leadership isolation, exit or redundancy, exams and applications, visibility, imposter feelings, the pace never dropping.
• Identity and life transitions. Relocation, migration, parenthood, divorce, illness, a role ending, success that did not feel the way you expected.
• Grief. Bereavement, and the less recognized losses: a version of yourself, a plan, a relationship, a company, a future you were counting on.
• Relationship stress. Conflict, distance, resentment, people-pleasing, difficulty asking for anything, family dynamics that still shape you.
• Perinatal loss and postpartum. Infertility and treatment, miscarriage, stillbirth, postpartum anxiety or depression, and grief that others often treat as smaller than it is.

What we can explore

What the anxiety is protecting you from, and what it costs. Where your standards came from and whether you still agree with them. Where is this disturbance coming from and what does it say about you. How your body holds pressure. What you are grieving. What you actually want, as distinct from what you have been achieving.

Where earlier experience is still driving current reactions, we may use EMDR or trauma-informed approaches, discussed and agreed with you first, and never applied by default.

What working together feels like

Direct, warm and unhurried. I am active rather than silent. I ask real questions, I notice patterns out loud, and I will tell you what I am thinking. You set the pace and the agenda, and nothing you say here needs to be tidied up first.